Re: [sword-devel] osis2mod

2007-04-25 Thread L.Allan-pbio
>> It could potentially cause the filesize to jump dramatically, so >> would >> that be acceptable? My 2¢ For front-ends like LcdBible, filesize increase is undesireable (audience is 3rd world missionaries with obsolete, donated, dinosaur computers/laptops and slooow POTS modems that are u

Re: [sword-devel] ANNOUNCEMENT: SIL MODULES

2007-03-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Muy bien! Thanks to the people involved. Might or might not apply: I've been using Boost::regex for conversion-like tasks with a "hold-your-nose template" that I could perhaps adapt to help out. PTL ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@cross

Re: [sword-devel] Survey of Personal Commentary Support

2007-01-01 Thread L.Allan-pbio
LcdBible does not support the Personal Commentary module (or any commentary for that matter ... sola scriptura). (sorry to be slow responding to your question) - Original Message - From: DM Smith To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 8:20 AM

Re: [sword-devel] Please vote for Sun to fix a Java bug

2006-12-13 Thread L.Allan-pbio
The link to "Vote for this Bug" is on the left side toward the bottom. - Original Message - > Here is the link to the bug report: > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4646993 > > Here is a link to register to vote: > https://softwarereg.sun.com/registration/developer/en_U

Re: [sword-devel] API Information

2006-11-17 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Some time back, I wrote some very simple "training wheels" console apps that might be helpful. They show how to get a resource open, and get verses from the resource. If those would be helpful, I can try to track them down and make them available. Are you able to build swordlib? My experience

Re: [sword-devel] The SWORD Project for Windows 1.5.9 installerstesting

2006-10-06 Thread L.Allan-pbio
I also don't understand why the InstallManager fields can't be pre-filled with default, valid info. Why would this convenience cause risks? I can understand if they proceed to get modules, but not why it is a risk just the convenience of prefilling a rather obscure part of The SWORD Project (if

Re: [sword-devel] The SWORD Project for Windows 1.5.9 installers testing

2006-10-06 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Some observations (none major ... good work): * nit ... Crosswire license mentions copyright 1994-2005 ... should this be 2006? (the Help About for sword.exe itself has 2006) * SWORD_PATH environment variable over-written ... should permission be asked to do this if one already exists (makes in

[sword-devel] FYI: Link for Vista RC1 (released Sep, 2006?)

2006-09-25 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Microsoft appears to be doing a "wide" release-candidate of Vista RC1 Build 5728 ... you may not need to be a MSDN subscriber (not sure yet until I attempt to actually burn the .iso and install ... I was able to obtain a Product Key). It is a 2.5 gig .iso image. Not for "narrow pipes". Microso

[sword-devel] Would "animated slideshow" be useful doc for BibleCS?

2006-09-25 Thread L.Allan-pbio
I've used Qarbon's ViewletBuilder and their ViewletCentral to put together "animated slideshows" that are oriented to end-users. Would something like that be useful for BibleCS sword.exe? Here is a link to a "mini-tutorial" for LcdBible to give an idea of what can be done: http://www.viewletcen

Re: [sword-devel] Remarks

2006-09-17 Thread L.Allan-pbio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, My name is Pierre from South-africa. I have just > installed Sword for Windows on my computer and would like to make a > few remarks - can I do that in this forum? Regards. Generally yes ... especially if it is related to developer issues rather th

[sword-devel] Fw: new free borland IDE for all langs!

2006-09-14 Thread L.Allan-pbio
FYI: www.borland.com/us/products/turbo/index.html I haven't installed or evaluated these (C++, Delphi, Delphi-Net, C#) and they are huge files. ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-d

Re: [sword-devel] new BibleCS for testing

2006-09-04 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Thanks for providing these. Some observations with 1.5.9 pre1 and ESV dated Aug 10, 2006 on a computer with WinXP-SP2. (mostly "nits") * Seems like too much "white space" at the top. With Gen 1, there is the Chapter 1 on a line by itself, and then five blank lines. There are three lines befor

Re: [sword-devel] SWMgr::findConfig [was: Finnish translation is ready]

2006-08-28 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Ok. Just thought I would ask. I am appreciative of the ..\library look-up. Perhaps you (or someone else) could do this instead: The LcdBible link on the main www.crosswire.org/index.jsp is obsolete by several releases. Could it be revised from: "Limited functionality (only The World English Bible

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS FC3 installer

2006-08-28 Thread L.Allan-pbio
> I'll be rewriting the BibleDesktop installer to handle this. I'm certainly interested in what you come up with for the BibleDesktop installer ... Probably makes sense for the installer for LcdBible to be very similar. ___ sword-devel mailing li

[sword-devel] LcdBible YAB 1.40n

2006-08-28 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Here is a link to the 1.40n Y)et A)nother B)eta of LcdBible: http://lcdbible.sourceforge.net/download/LcdBibleStarterKitSetup_WEB_beta.exe There are several differences from the 1.31m version: * Find Word(s) MRU (most recently used). The 20+ previous searches are kept in a drop-down combo-box, a

[sword-devel] SWMgr::findConfig [was: Finnish translation is ready]

2006-08-28 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > I've started to fix some of the problems. I'm hoping to have more > time > before the final release, which should be in the next couple days. If the swordlib code isn't frozen, could you consider having SWMgr::findConfig also look for mods.d in: ../The SWORD Project

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS FC3 installer

2006-08-23 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Looks VERY good. Nice job. Some comments: * The readme.txt has LcdBible information rather than InstallManager. * Should this be ver 1.5.9? * What is the status of icudt##.dll ? * In the "Help About" lower window, there is a sentence that starts with: "Thanx to God for His GREAT MERCY and LOV

[sword-devel] Ps 23 verse numbering anomaly with r5 and Aug 10 ESV files

2006-08-19 Thread L.Allan-pbio
BibleCS sword.exe rc5 (July 3, 2006) and ESV with files dated Aug 10, 2006 Looking at Psalm 23 * Verse numbers are showing up at the end of the previous verse: 1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 3 He restores my

[sword-devel] r5 and ESV files dated Aug 10, 2006: Phrase search anomalies?

2006-08-19 Thread L.Allan-pbio
> Lynn, >> * ESV search finds "Jesus" in 2 Sam 1:1, Jonah 1:1, and >> Malachi >> 1:1. I think these are "hits" from the notes (opening of chapter) >> rather than the actual Bible text. Is this intended? > Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Yes, this is intended. SWORD full text search (non-clucene)

[sword-devel] KJV2006 with files dated Aug 11: Curious about what has changed.

2006-08-18 Thread L.Allan-pbio
DM, I noticed your webpage has a revised version of the KJV2006 with files dated Aug 11, 2006. http://crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006/ Is this an update from the version that had files dated July 24, 2006? Can you describe the differences between this version and the one from late July, por fav

[sword-devel] ESV update on Aug 11. Is this 3rd beta?

2006-08-18 Thread L.Allan-pbio
DM, I noticed your webpage has a revised version of the ESV with files dated Aug 11, 2006. http://crosswire.org/~dmsmith/esv/ Is this a 3rd beta? The "summary page" indicates it is the 2nd beta, but is this one different from the one with files dated July 24? http://crosswire.org/~dmsmith/ Can

Re: [sword-devel] HTML Designers / Papyri Database

2006-08-03 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Seems to work ok with WinXp-SP2 and IE6 ... but I don't understand what you are doing or what to look for. I moved and resized the highlight boxes, and didn't notice any jumpiness. Then I dragged the actual picture around, and didn't notice jumpiness. What I did notice ... when I resized the hi

Re: [sword-devel] New Stuff for Testing

2006-07-31 Thread L.Allan-pbio
DM Smith wrote: > The info links do not work on the beta download page. Here is a link that has KJV2006 files from July 30, 2006. http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2006/kjv.zip << Question for DM Smith: Are these OK to use, at least for evaluation? >> ___

[sword-devel] JIRA links are incorrect in confirmation email

2006-07-24 Thread L.Allan-pbio
When you create or modify a jira issue, you get a confirming email with invalid links: - > View the issue: > http://www.crosswire.org/jira/browse/MOD-43 should be: http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/MOD-43 Is this minor

[sword-devel] Difficult to search for phrases that have quotation marks

2006-07-20 Thread L.Allan-pbio
My experience is that it is relatively difficult to search for phrases that have embedded quotation marks (either single or double quotes). Example: find man's wife in ASV (with Phrase Searching, should find 7 matches) This returns no "matches", because the text uses a "8-bit right-closing sing

[sword-devel] SWMgr::findConfig also look in ../The SWORD Project [was: BibleCS 1.5.8rc3]

2006-07-20 Thread L.Allan-pbio
> Newly added support (in engine) to look for books in ../library/ to > support the proposed layout: Program Files\CrossWire\library\ In the long term, this will be very helpful, and is much appreciated. However, for benefits in the short to moderate time frame, please consider: Could swordlib'

[sword-devel] KJV2006 NT and RC5 problems ... raw rtf codes displayed

2006-07-14 Thread L.Allan-pbio
With sword.exe RC5, I'm seeing "raw rtf codes" when looking at the KJV2006 NT module (either ztext or rawtext). OT chapters seem ok. KjvLite seems ok. Am I doing something wrong? (sorry if this has already been reported) I got these modules (dated 2006-June-29) from: http://www.crosswire.org/~dm

Re: [sword-devel] Problems compiling swordlib with vc6 and vc7.1

2006-07-12 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Here is a link: http://www.bibleinverse.org/Misc/patch_lda_vc6_71_060712.txt DM Smith wrote: > L.Allan-pbio wrote: >> >> If it would help, I can try to remember how to use svn and submit a >> patch file. >> >> > From the command lin

[sword-devel] Problems compiling swordlib with vc6 and vc7.1

2006-07-12 Thread L.Allan-pbio
With swordlib revision 1945, I'm encountering these problems using Microsoft vc6 and vc7.1: *** *** swbuf.h line 28 #ifdef WIN32 #include #endif There is no mem.h, so this fails. It turns out that mem.h isn't needed, so these three lines

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS 1.5.8rc4

2006-07-02 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Looks like quite a few improvements. Good work. Some comments/notes/problems (some may be related to ESV markup) * ESV search finds "Jesus" in 2 Sam 1:1, Jonah 1:1, and Malachi 1:1. I think these are "hits" from the notes (opening of chapter) rather than the actual Bible text. Is this inte

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS 1.5.8rc3

2006-06-27 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Some test results: * Capabilities of "Optimized Searching" are impressive ... able to search for things like: (languages or nations) and sons but is there documentation available or being prepared? Can this be made available for non-indexed (non-optimized) searching? * Searching for "*regenerat

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS 1.5.8rc3

2006-06-27 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Thanks for making this available. > Compiled against latest SVN of SWORD engine. Does this mean that we can/should do testing of the ESV module, and report problems ... rather than testing limited to the web-site? ("Notes" and "Cross References" are mis-behaving in Mark 1 ... see earlier proble

[sword-devel] LcdBible release candidate 1.31m

2006-06-03 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Here is a link to the LcdBible "starter kit" version 1.31m with the World English Bible: http://lcdbible.sf.net/download/LcdBibleStarterKitSetup_WEB_rc.exe Change log: http://lcdbible.sf.net/changelog.php Summary of changes from ver 1.22j (May, 2004) * Uses sword-api rather than "experimental p

[sword-devel] Possible to "cache" SwMgr detection of modules?

2006-05-16 Thread L.Allan-pbio
My understanding is that one of the first things that a "front-end" needs to do is instantiate SwMgr and let it find all the modules that are available. This detection is used to populate Tabs or drop-down lists so the end-user can switch from module to module. Once there are a lot of modules

Re: [sword-devel] NET markup of poetic line breaks has missing spaces?

2006-05-16 Thread L.Allan-pbio
DM Smith wrote: On May 15, 2006, at 2:58 PM, L.Allan-pbio wrote: The NET has for poetic line breaks but there isn't an allowance for a space if this isn't turned into a poetic line break (see Ps 23 for examples) The ... indicates whitespace. So this is appropriate. Well, that m

[sword-devel] NET markup of poetic line breaks has missing spaces?

2006-05-15 Thread L.Allan-pbio
The NET has for poetic line breaks but there isn't an allowance for a space if this isn't turned into a poetic line break (see Ps 23 for examples) A psalm of David.The Lord is my shepherd,I lack nothing./> He takes me to lush pastures,he leads me to refreshing water./> He restores my stre

Re: [sword-devel] Re: Kjv2006 markup

2006-05-15 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Also, the NET has for poetic line breaks (see Ps 23 for examples). DM Smith wrote: On May 13, 2006, at 8:39 AM, L.Allan-pbio wrote: * paragraph grouping ... DM Smith wrote: The paragraph markers are represented with Several comments: * After doing mod2vpl on Kjv2006, a hex viewer

[sword-devel] ESV: Is handling of poetic line breaks and paragraph tags appropriate?

2006-05-15 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Note: This only applies to sword.exe and not to "The Bible Tool" because "The Bible Tool" doesn't seem to have an option to group verses into paragraphs. Unless I missed something in preferences, swordweb doesn't have the equivalent of unchecking the option of BibleCS's Preferences + Display +

[sword-devel] Re: Kjv2006 markup

2006-05-13 Thread L.Allan-pbio
* paragraph grouping ... DM Smith wrote: The paragraph markers are represented with marker=\"¶\"/> Several comments: * After doing mod2vpl on Kjv2006, a hex viewer showed these to have an extra character: an 0xC2 before the ¶ * Which will the final Kjv2006 have? or marker=\"¶\"/> * Ca

Re: [sword-devel] Create a module. Where is xml2gbs

2006-05-12 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Perhaps upload the file and provide a link to the file in the list posting? (if you have a place to upload that is public) I do this often with lcdbible related files. (example:) http://lcdbible.sf.net/misc/CwModuleTutorial.doc Jónatas Ferreira wrote: Hi Joachim, Hi Manfred, Thank you, Manfre

Re: [sword-devel] Oddity using "The Bible Tool" and ESV ... "Go to:"doesn't seem to work at first.

2006-05-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Some more info: http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/SWEB-5 The URL is different before it starts working: http://www.crosswire.org/study/fulllibrary.jsp?key=gen+1%3A1 and after a search is done and it starts working ok: http://www.crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?key=gen+1%3A1 L.Allan

[sword-devel] ESV Gen 21:1 missing space between words (may be others?)

2006-05-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
http://www.crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?key=Genesis+21%3A1 It appears that a space is missing between "Lord" and "visited". It is a little hard to tell, because there is an "X" cross-reference between the words. If you look closely at the other "X" cross-references between words, the

[sword-devel] Oddity using "The Bible Tool" and ESV ... "Go to:" doesn't seem to work at first.

2006-05-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
I've encountered a problem trying to use "The Bible Tool" to check the ESV. The Go to: input field only results in seeing the copyright/publisher information. Here are the steps using IE 6 * www.crosswire.org * select "Read the Bible" link to get to www.crosswire.org/study * specify the ESV Bib

Re: [sword-devel] HowTo: create ztext module?

2006-05-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
g [Genesis 1:1] no entry in in Module. thru Skipping [Revelation of John 22:21] no entry in in Module. When I run sword.exe, there is a tab for ztwenty, but no contents for either the OT (expected) or NT. Clearly, I am doing something wrong ... help appreciated. Greg Hellings wrote: Lynn On 5/

Re: [sword-devel] HowTo: create ztext module?

2006-05-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Thanks. I'll revise the earlier tutorial for module preparation to describe making a ztext compressed module. Later today, it should be at: http://lcdbible.sf.net/misc/CwModuleTutorial_060510e.doc http://lcdbible.sf.net/misc/CwModuleTutorial.doc (same file) and http://lcdbible.sf.net/misc/CwM

Re: [sword-devel] Creating Sword modules on a Mac

2006-05-09 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Jónatas Ferreira wrote: Can anyone help me? Is it possible to create a sword module in a Mac instead of Windows? I'm not sure I understand your question, but my impression is that you have a Mac as your development computer, but not a Windows computer. The .cpp code is available from SVN for

Re: [sword-devel] HowTo: create ztext module?

2006-05-09 Thread L.Allan-pbio
IIRC, Huffman encoding seems to produce an optimal compression. The basic idea is to build a trie with the shortest paths through the trie being the most frequent patterns. The algorithms that I saw did this on input assuming a single byte character encoding such as ASCII or Latin-1. It is readi

Re: [sword-devel] HowTo: create ztext module?

2006-05-09 Thread L.Allan-pbio
While not simpler, there are ways to compress the files that don't use stream compression such that each verse can be handled independently. I'd be interested in how to do this, and still get decent compression. My limited experience is that if you don't have a large block of data (book), then

Re: [sword-devel] HowTo: create ztext module?

2006-05-09 Thread L.Allan-pbio
DM Smith wrote: On May 8, 2006, at 8:36 PM, Greg Hellings wrote: This brings up another interesting question (in my opinion). Why are there several standard modules which are distributed without compression? Things like the the ASV, the Vulgate and the WEB are all distributed in uncompress

Re: [sword-devel] HowTo: create ztext module?

2006-05-09 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Greg Hellings wrote: This brings up another interesting question (in my opinion). Why are there several standard modules which are distributed without compression? Things like the the ASV, the Vulgate and the WEB are all distributed in uncompressed format. Might it be beneficial for us to

Re: [sword-devel] HowTo: create ztext module?

2006-05-08 Thread L.Allan-pbio
o, in what ways? Also, there is a file mod2zmod2.cpp that refers to the non-existing ztext.h. Do you know anything about it? Barry Drake wrote: Hi Lynn ..... L.Allan-pbio wrote: I'd appreciate a hint or two on how to create ztext modules. It's really simple. You make a plain

[sword-devel] LcdBible beta 1.31m available

2006-05-08 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Here is a link to the LcdBible "starter kit" version 1.31m with the World English Bible: http://lcdbible.sf.net/download/LcdBibleStarterKitSetup_web_beta.exe Change log: http://lcdbible.sf.net/changelog.php Summary of changes from ver 1.22j (May, 2004) * Uses full sword-api rather than "experim

[sword-devel] NET: indirect references could be more direct

2006-05-08 Thread L.Allan-pbio
For John 3:1, the 1.1 note is "See the note on Pharisees in 1:24" Seems like the information could be available here directly in John 3:1, rather than having to move back to John 1:24. You don't want to duplicate the note, however. ___ sword-devel

[sword-devel] HowTo: create ztext module?

2006-05-07 Thread L.Allan-pbio
I'd appreciate a hint or two on how to create ztext modules. (Or a link to documentation or previous list post on this). I've been able to create plaintext modules for Bible texts, commentaries, devotionals, etc. that the rawtext driver can read, but I'm fuzzy how to create a ztext module that

[sword-devel] Does sword-api require #define USELUCENE

2006-05-06 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Sword-api SVN 1911 head seems to insist that #define USELUCENE be declared. Otherwise, rawtext.cpp line 288 (and many other lines) won't compile because the variable listkey is not declared: ListKey &RawText::search(const char *istr, int searchType, int flags, SWKey *scope, bool *just

[sword-devel] BCS-77: VerseRef input field loses focus if mouse doesn't stay within input field

2006-05-06 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Scenario: Suppose I'm looking at Gen 1. In the VerseReference input field, it shows Genesis 1:1. Ok so far. Now I want to directly "GoTo" another verse, such as John 3:16. I click in the input field, which selects/highlights Genesis 1:1. Still ok if the mouse doesn't "drift" and I type "John

Re: [sword-devel] ESV TESTERS PLEASE READ

2006-05-06 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Request for clarification is always a good thing. I think perhaps we were responding to Daniel Glassey's announcement: Please report any bugs you find in it to http://www.crosswire.org/bugs in the modules section. How about the erratic "hover" notes? (MOD-36) same as above. If a note do

Re: [sword-devel] ESV TESTERS PLEASE READ

2006-05-05 Thread L.Allan-pbio
A clarification please: Hopefully, this won't come across as a snide comment, but what exactly are we testing for? I'm confused. Is the test to be whether the contents of the ESV are correct? Are we looking for typos, mispeinggss, unsync'ed notes, verses out of order, etc.? Does the d

Re: [sword-devel] wxSword Client

2006-05-05 Thread L.Allan-pbio
integrating wxWidgets and Mozilla was quite cumbersome. For sure FYI, there are some real experts on wxWidgets that participate in the Audacity open-source project. It is a sophisticated multi-track audio editor that uses the GPL license. They have developed some incredible custom widgets

Re: [sword-devel] ESV bug [for duplicated headers]

2006-05-05 Thread L.Allan-pbio
If it is put in the bug tracker it won't get forgotten (not saying that it'll get fixed quickly just that it can't be forgotten ;) ) COM-9 (minor?) created at: http://crosswire.org/bugs/browse/COM-9 Is "Common" a "catch-all" category when the problem cause isn't clear? Related to JSword? I p

Re: [sword-devel] ESV bug [for duplicated headers]

2006-05-05 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Also using WinXp Pro SP2, but BibleCS sword.exe 1.5.8 rc1 I'm seeing a large number of duplicated headings, mostly at the start of chapters. There is a menu item Options + Headings that controls this. Every Psalm I looked at shows duplicated headings. Also the start of chapters, like Mark 1.

[sword-devel] Problem reading ESV Mark 1:2 for some reason?

2006-05-04 Thread L.Allan-pbio
I've use a console app to test modules, and hit a problem getting Mark 1:2. The following "boiled down code" reads 1000 verses fine with KJV, WEB, ISV, AKJV, etc, but crashes with ESV with assert message: isctype.c line 68 (unsigned)(c+1) <= 256 Am I doing something wrong, or is there a problem

Re: [sword-devel] ESV beta announcement

2006-05-04 Thread L.Allan-pbio
http://crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?mod=ESV&Footnotes=On&Cross-references=On Ok. The swordweb (The Bible Tool?) has a similar problem with notes showing up erraticly. Mark 1:1 note is blank. Attached screen shot to MOD-36 bug report. http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/MOD-36 But mo

Re: [sword-devel] ESV beta announcement

2006-05-04 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: Bug report MOD-36 (moderate to major?) ESV "hover footnotes" are erratic. For example, in Mark 1, some appear, and some don't. With the above comment, could you indicate which frontend you are using and if swordweb also shows the problems. MOD-36 updated to indicate s

Re: [sword-devel] ESV beta announcement

2006-05-04 Thread L.Allan-pbio
The ESV is now available as a public beta. You can download it from the beta area Thanks! Please report any bugs you find in it to http://www.crosswire.org/bugs in the modules section. Bug report MOD-36 (moderate to major?) ESV "hover footnotes" are erratic. For example, in Mark 1, some ap

Re: [sword-devel] ESV beta pre-announcement

2006-05-03 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Daniel G., Super! (and a belated happy first anniversary for your new position as copyright-meister ... ) Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 2:00 PM OK, subject to anyone objecting I am asking to take over copyright duties (I have emailed people already with some ideas but Troy is offline at the m

Re: [sword-devel] KJV2006 - 4th Beta

2006-03-25 Thread L.Allan-pbio
x27; Collaboration Forum" Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] KJV2006 - 4th Beta L.Allan-pbio wrote: DM, I tried out the "raw" KJV2006-Beta-4 with sword.exe rc1 drum roll, please Well, nothing shows up. Am I providing "dummy checking"

Re: [sword-devel] KJV2006 - 4th Beta

2006-03-25 Thread L.Allan-pbio
DM, I tried out the "raw" KJV2006-Beta-4 with sword.exe rc1 drum roll, please Well, nothing shows up. Am I providing "dummy checking" or otherwise doing something wrong? The KJV2006-ztext shows up ok, but not the raw vpl. When I try to look at nt and ot with a text editor, I'm getting

Fw: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer

2006-03-24 Thread L.Allan-pbio
DMSmith wrote: I have sent to Troy a workable system. Is that nsis installer source code available? And a prototype of the setup.exe itself? The last setup.nsi in SVN at: https://crosswire.org/svn/biblecs/trunk/installer/ is from Sep 8, 2005. Is there somewhere else to look? I would appreciat

Re: V11n was Re: [sword-devel] Jonah 1.17 / 2.1

2006-03-23 Thread L.Allan-pbio
I've got the "Lucene in Action" (2005) book in front of me, and my impression is that CLucene 0.9 can use Lucene 1.4.3 indices. http://clucene.sourceforge.net/ - Original Message - From: "Martin Gruner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Are clucene and lucene (and lucene4c etc.) indexes identical,

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer

2006-03-08 Thread L.Allan-pbio
From: "Troy A. Griffitts" The current InstallShield uninstaller calls installmgr with a command-line option to remove all modules. Scenario: A "family of sword-api front-ends" installed (such as BibleCS's sword.exe and one or more of BibleStudy, BibleDesktop, and LcdBible installed). The end-

Re: [sword-devel] OSIS:What is the future? Who is using it now?

2006-03-06 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Please, any of you that have the time, read the manual and provide revisions and comments. As they are actively working on OSIS 2.5, now is a good time. Based on your reading, would the upgraded osis spec be usable to prepare a module that could be used to generate a printable Sharing Bible tr

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer

2006-03-06 Thread L.Allan-pbio
quot;CrossWire" application. While this doesn't do everything on your wish list, I think it goes a long way toward it. For the last few weekends, I thought I'd get it done, but something always came up. Maybe, I can get it done tonight. Yes, you have noticed that I have spread

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer

2006-03-06 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Just thought I'd check what the status of the BibleCS installer was. There was a big flurry of posts in early Feb, but I was wondering if I missed the actual "release candidate". The last SVN entry is from September. Not meaning to be impatient, as I observe with gratitude (and awe) the large

Re: [sword-devel] Sapphire, module cipher

2006-03-02 Thread L.Allan-pbio
IANASE either. Something to consider (in addtion to something like a CRC or MD5 hash) perhaps the .conf file could have a known pattern for the first several characters and last several characters. For example, the KJV begins with: "In the" and finishes with "Amen." It something else sho

Re: [sword-devel] Major Sword bug found -- buffer overflow

2006-03-01 Thread L.Allan-pbio
If you encrypt first, then I would think that compression would not accomplish much ... encrypted text typically compresses very little, if at all. - Original Message - Martin, You have the flow of events incorrect. Compression is last on building. Decompression is first on rea

Re: [sword-devel] KJV2006 Project

2006-02-23 Thread L.Allan-pbio
I know zilch Greek or Hebrew, but could perhaps help with cleaning up the redundant/flawed tags in KJV there is a verse that is over 10,000 chars long, (Mark 1:9?) and several over 4,000 tags long. Stay tuned. With Troy's help, I should have the work area set up before too long with the K

[sword-devel] The SWORD Project and ScreenReaders for the Visually

2006-02-22 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Josh, I am pretty ignorant about accessability issues, but I wanted to check if you got your question(s) answered ok. The reason for my reply is that I participate on the open source GPL Audacity audio editor project. Over the past month or so, there have been a significant number of threads

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary not working withModDrv=RawFiles?

2006-02-17 Thread L.Allan-pbio
in the commentary window. You can change the verse, add other entries, restart, etc. and it still appears where you put it. imp2vs isn't involved in the Personal module/RawFiles driver. --Chris L.Allan-pbio wrote: I was trying out the Personal Commentary, and had

[sword-devel] Personal Commentary not working with ModDrv=RawFiles?

2006-02-17 Thread L.Allan-pbio
I was trying out the Personal Commentary, and had trouble getting it to work. Does the ModDrv=RawFiles work ok? As installed from the 1.5.6 StarterKit, the personal.conf is: [Personal] DataPath=./modules/comments/rawfiles/personal/ ModDrv=RawFiles SourceType=ThML Description=Personal Commentary

Re: [sword-devel] Is "original input source" for modules available?

2006-02-16 Thread L.Allan-pbio
From: "L.Allan-pbio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 10:36 PM Subject: [sword-devel] Is "original input source" for modules available? Greg H: wrote: Getting a copy of the "original" source should be close to possible using the

Re: [sword-devel] KJV2006 Project

2006-02-14 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Love to have your help. I don't think that knowledge of Hebrew or Greek is necessary for most of the changes. I know zilch Greek or Hebrew, but could perhaps help with cleaning up the redundant/flawed tags in KJV there is a verse that is over 10,000 chars long, (Mark 1:9?) and several o

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer: HKCU vs HKLM

2006-02-14 Thread L.Allan-pbio
If you do the leg work, I'll incorporate it. But at some point we need to do a release. And at that point whatever is solid will make the cut and be used. We can still work on it for the next release. I did some more research, and the more you look, the more complicated it seems to get. I'm re

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer: HKCU vs HKLM

2006-02-14 Thread L.Allan-pbio
nd - Original Message ----- From: "DM Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer: HKCU vs HKLM L.Allan-pbio wrote: Regarding use of HKCU vs H

Re: [sword-devel] tip about RTF/HTML control

2006-02-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
From: Fabrizio Lanza Hello, can somebody give me a quick tip? Coz I have some difficulty with my biblic translation platform. I saw that Sword uses some sort of rich text control, to display formatted bible text. What is it? In which programming language? For my project I need a cross-platform

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer: SWORD_PATH

2006-02-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Interesting I suppose I ought to install JSword and get more familiar with it. You can get it at http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop/download.html , use the Windows installer if on Windows. Thanks for the link. It installed nicely and works well. I learned some things. JSword may ha

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer: SWORD_PATH

2006-02-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
L.Allan-pbio wrote: (something I'm unclear about does JSword use the C++ api in some manner of "binding", or does it have an independent "reversed engineered" api written in Java?) JSword does not use any C++. It is pure Java. It also does not call

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer: readme before executables

2006-02-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
DM Smith wrote: The implementation is not a hybrid of C&D but more a variation on C as you gave in code below. If it is clearer to swap the labels, I would be glad to do that. Your call ... I don't really have a real preference ... maybe lean towards not changing the labels, and have the min

[sword-devel] BibleCS Installer: SWORD_PATH

2006-02-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Regarding SWORD_PATH issues (split from general BibleCS Installer thread to be focused on this issue alone) : DM Smith wrote: I didn't think about overwriting. I'll see about adding a check to see if it is currently defined and pointing to an existing directory. If it is not then I think it sh

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer: readme before executables

2006-02-10 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Well, I think you have two very good solutions here: (C and D) 1) Swap the labels and the functions. I found the default labels and I think that we can use them, so i18n is not an issue, nor is hacking. 2) Set variables in both functions and in .onInstSuccess do the work as requested. The secon

[sword-devel] BibleCS Installer: HKCU vs HKLM

2006-02-09 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Regarding use of HKCU vs HKLM (split from general Installer thread to be focused on this issue alone) : Here is some sample code for a custom page allowing choice of "Just this user" and "All Users". It is pretty stripped down just to illustrate the basics of how it works. (I haven't tested

Re: [sword-devel] Re: Daily Digest option? (Robin Randall)

2006-02-09 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Another option is to turn off having messages sent to you, and check the following link when you want to check messages: http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/sword-devel/ To turn of message delivery, this is what has worked for me (may be other/better ways) * On this page near the bottom, enter

[sword-devel] BibleCS Installer: readme before executables

2006-02-09 Thread L.Allan-pbio
By having them, we sign up to the responsibility for internationalizing those pages, should the need arise. Good point ... I hadn't considered that. Regarding getting readme.txt to show up by itself before InstallManager.exe and sword.exe (split from general Installer thread to be focused on t

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer

2006-02-09 Thread L.Allan-pbio
* HKLM SOFTWARE\Classes\sword ??? Seems to be set by running sword.exe whole series of registry entries. Perhaps these should be removed also? These are being created by the OS. Not by the installer or the executable. Try installing and running 1.5.6 and then search for registry entries.

Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer

2006-02-09 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Some comments: * Very good progress. * Nice implementation of the sword url link with WriteIniStr used to create the link * HKLM SOFTWARE\Classes\sword ??? Seems to be set by running sword.exe whole series of registry entries. Perhaps these should be removed also? * The InstallM

[sword-devel] Prelim draft of tutorial for Module-Making

2006-02-08 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Here is yatd ... yet another tutorial draft http://lcdbible.sourceforge.net/misc/CwModuleTutorial_060208d.doc which references a "StarterKit" that should be self-contained http://lcdbible.sourceforge.net/misc/CwModuleTutorial_060208d.zip Compared to previous: * incorporates some of Greg H's feed

Re: [sword-devel] NET bible

2006-02-08 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Just curious ... what is the status of The CrossWire Society and relevant permissions, licensing, and copyright of the NET Bible notes from Bible.org and/or BSF (Biblical Studies Foundation) and/or Biblical Studies Press? My impression is that the NET Bible itself is relatively unencumbered wit

[sword-devel] Prelim draft of tutorial for Module-Making [was: Is "original input source" for modules available?]

2006-02-08 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Here is a link to a first draft, with only about 1/3 to 1/10 of the eventual content ... if it seems worthwhile to continue ... http://lcdbible.sourceforge.net/misc/CwModuleTutorial.doc which references a "StarterKit" http://lcdbible.sourceforge.net/misc/CwModuleTutorial_060208c.zip Feedback app

Re: [sword-devel] Is "original input source" for modules available?

2006-02-08 Thread L.Allan-pbio
Greg H. wrote: Due to some of the same difficulties you were running into, I had planned to make a new tutorial on how to create a module in my edits to the website. ... As for a prepared tutorial on the website... I'm not aware of one other than the one you looked for. It needs some signific

Re: [sword-devel] Food for thought regarding OSIS and some of itsalternatives...

2006-02-08 Thread L.Allan-pbio
There are civil and appropriate ways to disagree with someone without resorting to "smash mouth". I believe you owe Mr. Johnson an apology. - Original Message - From: "Chris Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry? Did you have a better suggestion? Perhaps you misread the documentation

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